Science & Technology
Researchers state deformation occurs when there is a change in the amount of pressure in the magma chamber and experts are keeping an eye on the development.
Seismologists from UNAVCO, a nonprofit university-governed consortium, are using "Global Positioning System, borehole tiltmeters, and borehole strainmeters" to measure minute changes in deformation at Yellowstone.
In an article for the Billings Gazette, David Mencin and Glen Mattioli, geodesists with UNAVCO, say "the strain signal is larger than would be expected if the crust under Yellowstone were completely solid".
This would suggest lava is flowing, allowing pressure to build in the chamber.
The duo said: "These independent observations agree with other instruments at Yellowstone, like seismometers, that indicate a zone of semi-molten rock starting about three miles beneath the surface.
"We say semi-molten because the entire zone contains only between five and 15 percent liquid rock that occupies small pockets of space between solid rock."
However, they add "these findings are no cause for alarm", and these measurements are consistent for a volcano which has been building up for close to a million years.
The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 700,000 years ago but experts say it should blow every one million years or so.
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
The large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a "nuclear winter".
The massive eruption could be a staggering 6,000 times as powerful as the one from Washington's Mount St Helens in 1980 which killed 57 people and deposited ash in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces.
If the volcano explodes, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.
Comment: All signs point to great changes occurring on our planet, to think that Yellowstone's behaviour is shifting along with it wouldn't be too much of a stretch of the imagination, and the data shows that it is:
- Scientists predict upsurge in major earthquakes for 2018 due to slowdown in Earth's rotation
- Disastrous super-eruption could happen sooner than first thought
- The ground around the Yellowstone supervolcano has deformed after 1,500 quakes this summer
- Global Warming in the Arctic - Or Simply Massive Under Sea Volcanoes?
- Montana hit by strongest earthquake in over 20 years, raising concerns that Yellowstone 'supervolcano' is slowly waking up
- Experts scramble to keep an eye on long-dormant volcano in Iceland
Reader Comments
If the volcano explodes, a climate shift would ensue as the volcano would spew massive amounts of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, which can form a sulphur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.
Isin't that sorta act like the shit they are spraying from jets every day that they say are "contrails"?...
estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
Was this projection done by global warming scientists (AKA in current terms climate change scientists)
The human race will tick over quite nicely if America is wiped out
AI will be going online soon.
if individual Liberty is not reestablished before that date.
there will be no humans.. just machines.
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Excerpt from Session 6 July 2010
Q: (Andromeda) Can I ask about Yellowstone? Is any of this "movement" is going to wake it up and cause a major eruption soon? Or is that too predictiony?
A: That is more likely than a cataclysmic ocean floor explosion of methane.
Q: (L) Okay, so in the next 5 years, what is the percentage of probability of the supervolcano at Yellowstone going off?
A: 58%
Q: (L) 58, is that it?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) 58 percent. Well, that's more than half, but still kind of 50/50 in the next five years. (Ailén) There was a question we talked about today about what would happen in the southern hemisphere... (L) Yes. So, if there was a global superstorm like in the movie we watched today [The Day After Tomorrow], what goes on in the southern hemisphere during such an event? The movie only showed storms in the Northern Hemisphere.
However, they add "these findings are no cause for alarm", and these measurements are consistent for a volcano which has been building up for close to a million years.
2 short paragraphs later, and in scary bold letters
If the Wyoming volcano were to erupt an estimated 87,000 people would be killed immediately and two-thirds of the USA would immediately be made uninhabitable.
The large spew of ash into the atmosphere would block out sunlight and directly affect life beneath it creating a "nuclear winter".
My fear-boner is raging right now
Trump's or Obama's?
Please weigh in below.